Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:25:40 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: chat@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? (Was: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ...) Message-ID: <Mutt.19961117132540.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199611171001.LAA25467@freebie.lemis.de>; from Greg Lehey on Nov 17, 1996 11:01:41 %2B0100 References: <199611161229.NAA07216@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199611171001.LAA25467@freebie.lemis.de>
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According to Greg Lehey: > Looks like you're solving the wrong problem here. How about faster > fork and execve? Then you don't need to learn another YACL. When the equivalent of a few lines of Perl is several sed/awk/cut in shell (commonplace), even with a faster fork/exec, Perl will still be faster. If anything, you'll fork/exec Perl faster :-) For many tasks over 20 lines of shell script, Perl will be faster. There are some things I'd consider difficult with sh/awk/sed that are almost trivial with Perl. C wil be faster but unless you don't know Perl at all, you'll end up writing it faster in Perl... Of course Real Programmers(TM) use Fortran. :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sun Nov 10 13:37:41 MET 1996
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